Seniors Boasting About Their Pre-AI Coding Skills

Turns out we've been doing rubber duck debugging with ChatGPT all along. The sheer act of articulating your problem clearly enough for an AI to understand it forces your brain to actually think through the logic—and boom, solution appears before you even hit send. It's the digital equivalent of walking to your coworker's desk with a question, then figuring it out halfway through explaining it. The irony is chef's kiss: we built advanced AI only to rediscover the power of just thinking out loud.

Claude 4 just wrote the most elegant, useless code in history. 3,000+ lines of pristine architecture that does absolutely nothing except look pretty in the IDE. Like watching someone build a cathedral and then realizing they forgot to include doors. The digital equivalent of a perfectly organized sock drawer in a house that's on fire.

Ah, the utopian fantasy where developers actually use type systems properly instead of throwing AI at everything! Imagine a world where we didn't have to debug cryptic runtime errors at 2 AM because someone thought any was a perfectly acceptable type for everything. This futuristic paradise could be ours if people spent half the time they waste prompting ChatGPT on actually learning TypeScript properly. But no, we'd rather ask AI to generate 200 lines of untyped spaghetti code than write a proper interface. Who needs flying cars when you can have undefined is not a function?

The resume inflation has begun! We've all seen that one colleague who suddenly became an "AI expert" after using ChatGPT twice. Five years from now, we'll be sitting in interviews listening to people explain how they've been "pioneering machine learning solutions" since 2023, when in reality they just figured out how to prompt an LLM without it hallucinating too badly. The true AI skill of our generation? Convincing robots not to write poems when you just want them to fix your regex.

The evolution of coding assistance in one perfect Ninja Turtles reference! Remember when we all relied on Stack Overflow's cryptic answers from grumpy experts who'd rather tell you why your question was stupid than actually help? Those were the dark ages. Now we've got ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseeк, and Gemini—fully grown AI assistants ready to solve our problems without judging our intelligence or demanding we read the documentation first. The student has become the master, and Master Splinter (Stack Overflow) is now just tagging along while his former pupils do all the heavy lifting. The circle of life for programming knowledge—from "marked as duplicate" to "here's 5 different solutions with explanations."

Ah, the classic "locally running fine-tuned model" joke that perfectly skewers both tech bros and Nvidia's marketing department in one fell swoop. This is riffing on how Nvidia has been aggressively pushing AI capabilities in everything from gaming to dating. The tweet satirizes the absurd endpoint of this trend – where even your romantic partners need to be running on local hardware to be "legitimate." As someone who's watched GPU prices skyrocket while marketing slides get increasingly unhinged, I feel this in my empty wallet. Next they'll be selling us RTX 5090s with "girlfriend-ready ray tracing" for the low price of your firstborn child.